I' S "jft" mi in »■ VOLUME XXVII Armed Guards OnDuty As Chicago Voters Go To Polls During Day - .. " rZ. -' . . .• •. ‘ ' Jfc 1 :»'■ &■ Five Thousand Police Of x fleers, Special Machine Gun Squads and Armed Men on Duty. STATE SOLDIERS NOT CALLED OUT, . Shooting in Negro Precinct' '% Caused Alarm But There Were No Casualties Af ter Four Hours at Polls. J Chicago. April s.—o«—Oitago’s mo«t extraordinary mayoralty c*m-| l>a>gn—whose issues hurtled the mnn ie'pal boundaries aud eoared to tor ei*n fields—today entered the voting stage, with 5,00 Q policemen, ’ special machine gun squads and armed plain clothes men on guard. One candidate was Wm. E. Devor, democrat, who came to Chicago 'from Massachusetts"4s years ago, and rose from a tannery worker ti> alderman, superior court Judge, and finally chief executive. His plea for re-election was based entirely on the municipal record. | • Another candidate was Wm. Hale Thompson, another Bay State native, • once a cowboy, mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923, and titular head of the republican party, in Chicago.| His slogan was “Americn first.'\ He inveighed against the league of na tions, the draft, the prohibition law, I and‘told King George to “keep hia snoot” out of Chicago’s affairs. | A third candidate conceded only a f bare chance of winning, was Dr. John j I Dill Ktobertson, former health com | mission* under Thompson, who cam-' K paigned with the Rupport of Fred p I.undin “the poor Swede,” who served as Thompson's political godfather un til their ways came to an abrupt part-i > ing a few years ago. The State soldiery was not railed out, despite the plea of Sheriff Char les Graydon, that it be kept in rearit liss, but Adjutant x, General Carlos Black, of Springfield, maintained head quarters here today, prepared to have guardsmen on duty within two hours if the emergency presented itself,. v,l The poli*< on the other hand wane - ready to ntc«t any election day terror .ftp duped —They- {uuuted tl**4 1 word to the eityV gnnmen and hood lums to weir their bullet proof vestß| if they ventured forth. “Well shoot' first, talk alterwnrds,” was the police, fiat. - I Shooting at Voting Place. Chicago, April S.— OP) —A shooting, J the first iu four hours of voting in j the mayoralty election here "today, | alarmed negro voters in the 32nd pre cinct of the 28th ward on West Lake 1 Street about 10 A. m., hut there were! no casualties. Several men In a roadster fired sev- j eral shots as they passed a polling plaee. The bullets shattered a win dow and a m»n within the place ran out and fired a shot in return. [ DqtectivU squads in automobiles were’ called out iu au effort to traH 1 | the roadster. Wild Kittens Lose to Mount Plena k nnt. ‘ * Mount April 4—Mount PJcitaant ' Institute baseball team staged a.great rally here this after noon in the sixth frame of the game with Davidson freshmen, scored six runs) to/overcome a three-run lead, winning by a score of 11 to 8. The heavy hitting of the local boys was responsible for the victory, Moore, Allmqn. Watts, Klutx and Duke get ting'circuit drives. Joe Goodman. Greensboro boy. f need cars for sale, including Ford coupe, Chevrolet coupe, Chrysler coupe and Chrysler roadster. i M. R. Pounds can clean and dye what you cannot get done elsewhere. i Mr. Kesler to Be Speaker. Raleigh April s.—P)—Coun ties will not be allowed to sell land of delinquent taxpayer* on May L- ■ but will be allowed to dispps- « ■ real property on the firs' -Oat s^ 3 in June, Attorney GA ■ - G. Brummitt says in i\* county government act' ...sSed by the last Legislature. , Differences of opinion arose among among the county officials ■ (t and the state official was asked for a ruling.'' COPIES OF NEW LAWS , ABOUT READY FOR PUBLIC Six Thousand Copies of Laws Enacted By Legislature WIN Be Distributed. Tribune Bureau [ Sir Walter Hotel. , Raleigh, April 5. —Six thousand • t copies of the Public I-aw* of 1927, now almost printed, are expected to be bound and ready for distribution by not later than Apirl 20. it was an , nounced today b.v Frank I>. Grist, Commissioner of I-a hor and Printing, It is also expected that the Public- Local and Private Laws of 1027, being published in another volume, will be ready by not later ban May 1, also the bound copies of the Senate and House Journal. As far as is known, this is the quickest printing job ever turned out for the state, according to Mr. Grist. In 1025, the Public I.a ws were not I printed and distributed Hntil Septem ber. six months after the general as sembly had adjourned, and the state printing contract does not call for the delivery of any of the volumes until 00 days after the adjournment of the legislature. Yet this year the Public Laws will be distributed within 50 to 60 days after the adjournment of the geueral assembly. The speed with which these three volumes are being printed—the Public Laws, the Pirblic-Iyocal and Private laws, and the Senate and House Journnls—has been .made itossible only as the result of the excellent coopera tion of the Secretary of State’s office aqd tip l printers, with the department of printing, according to Mr. Grist, who declared that this cooperation has been excellent in every detail. "Mr. Everett has done evrything possible in getting the certified copies of tlje laws to use promptly', and the printers have done their utmost, to speed the work, with the result that we are about to break all records for s|>ee(\y printing of these books," Mr. Grist said, "The printers especial ly are to be commended fdr tile work they have done; there has such whole-hearted cooperation- a niong the printers as this year." Besides the 6,000 copies of the Pub lic' Laws which will be ready April 20, the contract cals for 2,000 copies of the Public-Local and Private laws, and for 500 copies of the Journals. FRENCH FAIL TO ACCEPT THE OVERTURE Second Invitation of Coolidge Reject ed; Say Program Conflicts With League Plans. Paris, April 4.—The French gov ernment today declined the American invitation to be represented “in some fashion" at the three power confer ence for the reduction of naval arm aments which is to nfeet at Geneva With the United fates, Great Britain and Japan participating. President Coolidge's second disarm ament overture was turned down for the same reason given for rejecting the first one—the fact that France already is engaged in armament lim itation discussions under the auspices of the league of nations. It a is stated that from France's viewpoint, limitation of naval arma ments cannot be considered apart from land and aerial fighting force. A memorandum containing The* French refusal has been turned over to the United States embassy by the French foreign office. It asserts that France cannot weaken the authority of the league, which al|-ead.v has takeu up the problem of general disarma ment, nor can France compromise the principle of equality of all nations, large or small. THE COTTON MARKET , Opened Steady at An Advance of One to Three Points With Some Buy ing and Selling. New York, April 5. —OP)—The cot ton market opened steady today at an ( advance of Ito 3 points. There was a little selling on lower cables than ' due, but reported rains in the eastern ( belt brought in some buying orders, , and the market held 3or 4 points , above yesterday's closing figures. r Private cables said hedging with American and continental selling bad caused the decline in Liverpool, but reported a slightly improved demand ! for cotton cloth in Lancashire, j There was some suother selllitig f here early, but trading generally was > quiet, the market showing no special , treud at the end of the firat hour. The market became a little more active later, on reports of heavy rains in north Louisiana and Arkansas, ‘ accompanied by some New Orleans buying here. Wall Street buying and rain reports sent prices up to 14.27 for July and 14.70 for December, or about 7to 0 points higher. At these figures demand was supplied by realis ing or a little Southern selling, but (he market was within two or 3 points of the best at madday. Cotton futures opened steady: May 14.02; July 12.24; October 14.43; De cember 14.62; January 14.67. Cabarrus “Home Brewers” Fined. | -Charlotte, April 5.-OPI-A. M£ w Farrell and Burrd Morria. filling tion operators of Cabarrus county, were fined respectively : m ■ TODAY’S NEWS TODAY| 33 NO. 741 NOTES OF PROTEST cr p CHINESE; -MmTIOll The American Note jl Little Different From all* Qnes Dispatched by Oth- \ er Governments. | CANTONESE TO till ; GET PROTESTS J The Contents of Note»|H| f Made Public by SendHEK —The Nanking Tragdfer® Lead to the Protests. I London. April 5. —(A 3 ) — incur from China that the States, Great Britain and Japan'-Hhia presented demands upon the CantqiߧHH! government for reparation Nanking outrages was Londoiy momentarily today, followittML~a f news that the United States ha&'liu- : jaß xtrueted its minister in Peking wfcd&Wj course to take. It is stated fblrtt.-jK the British minister has already rtv.-tSf ceived his instructions. . a Although the text of the America* gB note is understiMMl to have been iy amended from the as submitted by the American minis ter. Mae Murray to Washington, 'R : jß||H| essentially the same as the JapMrtflb: and British protests. , 8 it is expected tiint the demanctii|jHHj 8 be handed to tlie politics Land iniliUMjfi’ J authorities of the Cantonese regimey-aM both at Hankow and Shanghai. 1 Another French Cruiser to StHnjtfraakJK. Paris, April 5.—(A 3 ) —A i French cruiser with a landing lOWeISI i of 800 men will shortly Shanghai, it was learned today; eision to send the taken at last Saturday's cabinet ing, but the announcement was with held. M | Looting Reported. I Peking. April s.—qf 3 )— lootin' throughout the Salt .art*? ju. ~|*f the province of Shantung and along 9 the coast south of Tsingtao bp Tao Hui. or "destruction aOCTHkcfai II was reported yesterday. 9 Magistrates offices, the Salt and other buildings were burned, and M numbers of Salt revenue police, revej line coTiee'fdrS and others werenSSIHM Troops have been sent against tIMpH Tao Hui by General Pi Shu Chen, JB tlie Shantung eommamier. ‘"*3 B Washington Silent. 1 Washington. April 5. —(A 3 )—-Ad* liering strictly to its policy of silence,:!® the State Department today to be drawn out on its Chineeejn|Aflj!§3HHS \ his pastor. Rev. E. K. Mclyarty. Brojid Street Church. , will take place in Oak wood. «hH| i . tpr y. . ■ r Mr. Powell was 61 years of age. ttUfEga I for many years he had beep her of the firm of Adams an menegildo Lara, a priest, i oentlytlp] . tured while allegedly heading' h' NM I band in the state of Jalisco, has tgWK < court martinlled and executed Guadalajara. ''**■■■' -v.. M - ITT ifTI • j ( Probably rah. tonight and W